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Chair, Department of Dance
Carol Estey has been a dancer in eight Broadway shows, and she's also worked Off-Broadway and in national companies. She's the founding co-artistic director of Opera House Arts at the Stonington Opera House. Estey earned an M.A. from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University

Deborah Carr teaches modern dance, choreography and dance history. Carr has been a member of the dance company of Charles Weidman and is the founder of Deborah Carr’s Theatre Dance Ensemble. She has been guest teacher for the Limon Institute and has taught at universities in the U.S., England and Ireland. Carr is a graduate of Stephens College.

Elizabeth Hartwell teaches ballet. Hartwell served as director of the Louisville Ballet School following a long tenure as principal dancer with the Louisville Ballet. She also served as artistic director for the Louisville Ballet Youth Ensemble, an honor company with the Southeastern Regional Ballet Association.

Maggie Dethrow teaches modern dance and jazz. Dethrow is an instructor at Dance Arts of Columbia and a graduate of Stephens College.

Nancy Stoy is a member of the Royal Academy of Dance and of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dance, with an emphasis in Cecchetti Method and Pedagogy. She performed in Omaha-Dancescape and has taught in the U.S., London and Canada. Stoy teaches at the Halcyone Perlman School of Dance, in Columbia, and is a graduate of the Canadian College of Dance in Toronto.